The business climate today demands greater efficiency at every point in an organization - including storage. The fact is, not all data requires the high performance and maximum availability of high-end disk storage. So, how can you manage your data more efficiently, while supporting the information requirements of your business? Tiered storage provides a cost-effective solution by matching classes of data with appropriate levels of performance, availability, and cost. The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1500 (MSA1500) enables tiered storage by providing high performance for critical applications and low-cost bulk storage for non-critical data, or data with lower I/O performance requirements.This Kit includes (1) MSA1500, (1) MSA30 SCSI drive enclosure, (1) 4/8 Base SAN Switch, (4) 4Gb SFP transceivers, (2) FC1142SR 4Gb PCI-E HBAs and cables.